Monday, April 1, 2013

The past several years the federal government has
embarked on a strategy of militarizing the local law enforcement
agencies around the country. They have provided the money and equipment
to give these agencies the appearance of small military units that act
in a manner far removed from the community service of days past. This
has pushed many local departments away from the friendly approach they
utilized in the past to serve the public interest.

I have seen it myself in the local department where I
live. In a county with less than 20,000 people we now have a police
force with almost 50 officers and the sheriff wants at least 100 more
auxiliary police officers. What all of these police are for in this
sparsely populated area has yet to be answered. The sheriff has also
made it a point to hire deputies from outside the county to ensure there
is no close connection between the police and the local community.

This is exactly what the federal government wants,
to ensure the local police will not be in a position to side with
locals if anything happens. It is in the governments' best interest to
drive a wedge between the communities and law enforcement. The
government is apparently designing a confrontation between citizens and
the government and they are using local agencies to assist.

Is it a Sign of the Times or a sign from the NY Times? The NYT’s article Klan Protests in Memphis Over Renaming of Three Parks
comes in the wake of a spate of accusations against extremists or
‘white supremacists’. It’s been a long time since it hogged the
headlines but the “white supremacist” word is back in the news.

CBS News
has broadly hinted that the murder of Kaufman County District Attorney
Mike McLelland in Texas was connected with white supremacist groups.
“Sources told CBS … that the DA was shot multiple times with what is
believed to be an assault rifle … there were no signs of forced entry.”

The killings came less than two weeks after Colorado’s
prison chief was gunned down at his front door by a white-supremacist
ex-convict, and two months after Kaufman County Assistant District
Attorney Mark Hasse was shot to death in a parking lot a block from his
office Jan. 31. No arrests have been made in Hasse’s slaying. …
McLelland himself, in an Associated Press interview, raised the
possibility that Hasse was gunned down by a white supremacist gang.
McLelland, elected DA in 2010, said that Hasse hadn’t prosecuted any
cases against white supremacists but that his office had handled
several, and those gangs had a strong presence in the area.

Now comes news that McLelland was associated with the Tea Party,
as shown in a campaign finance report form. Assault rifle, Tea Party,
suggested familiarity all confirm the darkest — or whitest — fears in
the media.

Think Progress hints that a “white supremacist plot” may be behind the spate of killings.

Mitchell’s
last recorded vote was cast on May 16, 2012 - the final day of last
year's regular session - when he voted against the fiscal 2012-13 budget
bill.

Mitchell, 64, did not participate in a special session of
the Legislature that convened from May 17-24, 2012, to address
redistricting. Mitchell declined his pay and travel reimbursements for
the special session, according to the House Clerk’s office.

Mitchell
is being paid his salary - $55,826 per year – plus travel expenses for
the current session, although there is no evidence he’s attended a
single day.

The U.S. economy is in a bubble inflated by “phony money” from the
Federal Reserve and will burst within a few years, warned David
Stockman, who was budget director for President Ronald Reagan.

In an essay published yesterday in the New York Times, Stockman wrote
that the Fed’s quantitative easing policies in the aftermath of the
credit crisis have flooded stock markets with cash even while the “Main
Street economy” remains weak. The combination, he wrote, is
“unsustainable.”

“When it bursts, there will be no new round of bailouts like the ones
the banks got in 2008,” wrote Stockman, a former senior managing
director at Blackstone Group LP and a former Republican congressman from
Michigan. “Instead, America will descend into an era of zero-sum
austerity and virulent political conflict, extinguishing even today’s
feeble remnants of economic growth.”

Stockman, 66, is the author of “The Great Deformation: The Corruption
of Capitalism in America,” which will be published tomorrow. In a
previous book published after he resigned as budget director in 1985,
Stockman criticized his former Reagan administration colleagues for
failing to cut spending along with the supply-side tax cuts they
enacted.

“We’re borrowing money and burying the future generations in debt,” he said in an interview today on Bloomberg Television.

With the Supreme Court set this week to hear two historic challenges to the traditional definition of marriage, pro-family advocates are charging that legalizing gay marriage would “inevitably” lead to the legalization of polygamy as well.

“No question about it,” Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview Monday afternoon.

“If you make the ultimate value a person’s right to express their sexuality with another person and to have that identified as marriage, then how do you keep polygamy from happening?
“How do keep consensual adult siblings from getting married?” he added. “How do you keep a consensual father and adult daughter from getting married? Incest and polygamy will come right after it.

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Land’s conclusion: “You shatter the definition of marriage if you try to expand it to include same-sex marriage.”

The latter days of Rome come to mind.

Out-of-towners live large at free shelters

For out-of-towners seeking “four-star’’ accommodations here, there’s
The Waldorf, The Pierre, The Plaza — and the city’s homeless shelters.

“People
pay $3,000 for an apartment here, and I get to live here for free!”
said Michal Jablonowski, 25, who moved back to the city from his native
Poland three years ago and is now staying in a Bowery shelter.

“I
have food. I have health care. It’s great,’’ Jablonowski said. “Here,
the city supports you. The city helps you with everything.’’

City shelters boasting generous resources have increasingly become havens for out-of-towners, statistics show.

Nearly one in four of the city’s single homeless people who entered
the system in December 2012 listed their last address as outside the
city.

“We get breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have a microwave
and TV. They do the laundry for free,” noted Jablonowski, who lived in
New York for years before going back to his homeland, only to return
here to a freebie life.

Jablonowski said he even gets a prepaid
cellphone — allowing 1,000 texts and 300 minutes a month — through
Medicaid and boasted, “I’m going to get my teeth fixed.”

“I love New York because you cannot starve in New York, you can always find food and clothes,” he said.

“The
shelters are really nice. You have clean sheets. You get to watch TV
and stay in the warm. Homeless people have it so good, they don’t want
to look for a job.’’

“The attached guidance reconciles [the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act]
with other applicable provisions, including … the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act … which restricted funds from being used to
demilitarize or dispose of certain types of carbines, rifles, pistols,
or small arms ammunition and ammunition components that are not
otherwise prohibited from commercial sale under Federal law or certified
by the Secretary of the Army … as unserviceable or unsafe for future use,” the memorandum explains.

“The DoD, over the past several years, made available for commercial
sale to qualified buyers in the continental United States an estimated
six to eight million pounds of intact (non-demilitarized) ESACC,” the
memorandum continues, citing periodic quantity reviews “based on the
average percentages … available for sale, Qualified Recycling Program
Revenues, and sales customer input.

President Barack Obama, who has increased the national debt by $53,377 per household, has proclaimed April
“National Financial Capability Month,” during which his administration
will do things such as teach young people “how to budget responsibly."

“I call upon all Americans to observe this month with programs and
activities to improve their understanding of financial principles and
practices,” Obama said in an official proclamation released Friday.

“My Administration is dedicated to helping people make sound decisions in the marketplace,” he said.

"Together, we can prepare young people to tackle financial
challenges--from learning how to budget responsibly to saving for
college, starting a business, or opening a retirement account,” he said.

“My Administration continues to encourage responsibility at all
levels of our financial system by cracking down on deceptive practices
and ensuring that consumers are informed of their rights,” he said.

Four pages with the names of some 132 companies and individuals who
withdrew the bulk of their deposits in euros, dollars and rubles kept
in local banks reveals a publication of the first issue.
Money transfers made within 15 days, namely from 1 until March 15. On
Friday, March 15, had met the Eurogroup, which officially decided to
impose a tax on deposits by companies and individuals in all financial
institutions in Cyprus.

These 132 companies and individuals have withdrawn all deposits in
euros, dollars and rubles, which were transferred to other banks outside
Cyprus.

The disclosure of the list, which shows that the outflow of deposits
from local banks other financial institutions outside Cyprus became
massively raises suspicion that some had inside information about the
decisions taken by the other 16 eurozone countries in exchange for
financing deficits of the economy.

In listings, and the company is Loutsios & Sons Ltd, which carried
21 million deposit in a UK bank, while the owner of the company is
alleged to have family ties with the President of the Republic, Nikos
Anastasiadis.

The first column are names of companies and individuals in the second
record of the amounts withdrawn in the third column refers to the amount
withdrawn in the same currency, the currency in the fourth and the
fifth and last column refers to the date of transfer.

The “captains of the religious right are always calling us back,” the
pastor of the church where the first family worshiped on Easter Sunday
said in his sermon as the president sat in attendance.

According to a pool reporter who covered the service,
the Rev. Luis Leon, an Episcopal priest at Saint John’s Church
Lafayette Square, earlier in the sermon noted that people often want
things to go back to the way they used to be, before "work got difficult
and faith got confused, and life got more confusing.”

But, he added, just Jesus told Mary not to hold on to the past, "You cannot go back."

At that point, he added, "It drives me crazy when the captains of the
religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in
the back of the bus ...for women to be back in the kitchen ... for immigrants to be back on their side of the border."

As a 15 year old, I never imagined my activism in politics would translate into controversy for me at school.

My name is Benji Backer and I attend a public high school in Appleton, Wisconsin. I have always supported the public school system and plan to do so for the rest of my life. Many Americans who stand up for the public school system and the unions believe there is no attempt to sway opinion or that students with opposing beliefs are singled out. Unfortunately, experiences I have had with harassment and bullying prove that wrong. This is a timeline of the most extreme cases of harassment and indoctrination I have had in the three different public schools I have attended over the last three years.

I am currently in my freshman year of high school and the incidents are happening more frequently and I believe are more severe. As you can imagine, the ongoing pressure and bullyinghas been disturbing to me, my friends and my family.

Just before the 2010 Midterm election, I was on the front page of the local newspaper for my political volunteer work and my teachers noticed. One of my seven teachers made it very clear that she dissaproved of my civic engagement. In a period of two months, my Geography teacher frequently

would take me aside after school for a few minutes and tell me how stupid, wrong and misguided I was for being Republican. The harassment with this specific teacher got so bad, I had to switch schools halfway through the year. At this time I was only 12 years old. To my knowledge, this teacher was not disciplined at all for her actions.

We are going into a battle which will determine the future of gun
control for the next decade - and perhaps for the rest of our lifetime.

Here's the status: On or around April 8, Harry Reid will move to
proceed to S. 649. That "base bill" contains the Veterans Gun Ban, which
could send you to prison for 15 years if you sell a gun to a veteran,
without realizing he has PTSD. The bill will also contain the Schumer
version of Universal Gun Registries.

S. 649 does not have the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster on
final passage. However, if Reid can get the motion to proceed adopted -
and get on the bill itself - he will play let's-make-a-deal and use
bribes and kickbacks to buy the 60 votes he needs.

In particular, Reid and Schumer will probably try to prune the
universal registry bill to buy off the vote of Oklahoma Republican Tom
Coburn. They may pretend to prohibit recordkeeping by the FBI, but you
can bet their "compromise" will contain a big, juicy loophole.

In addition, they may pare it back to gun shows and internet sales,
although the most recent "gun show" bill we have seen would effectively
ban gun shows.

The media has been reporting that the NRA leadership is working with
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to craft these compromises, although
NRA vehemently denies it.

As a result of anti-gun rules changes, there are two ways to proceed
to a bill in the Senate. One requires 60 votes, which we have. The
second requires 50 votes (plus Biden), but requires Reid to give up some
of his control of the floor.

The point is this: Our efforts will be tremendously helped if the NRA
leadership publicly calls on Senators to oppose the motion to proceed,
opposes cloture on the motion to proceed, and scores both votes.

If it does this, the motion to proceed will die. Reid will be unable
to move to any gun control legislation. Gun control will die.

We believe that, because of the strength and fervor of our
membership, we are very close to winning this battle - but it would be
so much easier if we were both singing off the same page.

ACTION: If, you are an NRA member, contact them. Urge them to join
with us in supporting the Paul-Cruz-Lee filibuster. That means they
should tell Senators to oppose the motion to proceed to any gun control
vehicle, and to oppose cloture on the motion to proceed to any gun
control vehicle.

CONTACT: You can use the message below to direct your comments to NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.

According to a notice posted on the Defense Distributed website,
Homeland Security Investigations and the Justice Department have taken
the site down.

“This domain name associated with the website DefenseDistributed.com or Defcad.org has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court,” the home page of the website states.

The post claims a federal grand jury has indicted several individuals
associated with the website and charged them with violating the Arms
Control Act, the Undetectable Firearms Act, and other crimes.

Defense Distributed is on open source organization that designed the
Wiki Weapon, a firearm that can be downloaded over the internet and
printed with a 3-D printer. The project was co-founded by University of
Texas law student Cody Wilson “and a group of like-minded friends with
strong libertarian leanings – a mix of Ron Paul fans, hunting
enthusiasts, and tech-savvy revolutionaries who see the availability of a
“printable gun” as potentially upending power structures across the
globe,” PCMag.com reported last August.

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.